Ullage
AI-native software studio · built fast, priced to grow

Nothing burns without ullage.

In zero gravity, fuel floats and the engine can't reach it. Before every big burn there is a minimal push that settles everything. We do that with companies.

Type it in your own words, or pick an example. You get the shortest scope that puts it in motion — no signup, no call first.
ullage · run/ignitionrunning
propellant level0 / 66 %
6weeks to production
1/5of market cost
0headcount to carry
66%the level that lets it light

Our inspiration

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1300s · the cellarThe empty space in the barrel

Wine evaporates through the wood. The gap between the liquid and the lid is the ullage — what is missing to fill it. Too much of it means oxygen, and oxygen ruins the wine, so cellar masters measured it obsessively.

1960s · orbitThe engine swallows vacuum

In zero gravity the propellant doesn't rest on the floor of the tank: it floats in globules, and the ullage can sit right over the pump inlet. Light the main engine like that and it fails.

Apollo · S-IVBThe push before the Moon

Small auxiliary motors fired for a few seconds before translunar injection, settling the fuel against the outlet. That minimal push was the condition for everything else. Without it, a stage with all its power was worth nothing.

Now · your companyHaving fuel is not enough

Most companies have resources, a team and a product — and nothing lights, because the gesture that settles it is missing. Technology rarely fails for lack of power. It fails for lack of initial direction.

We are not your engine. You already have that. We are the push that lets you light it.

0 g — engine starvedafter the ullage burn

Mission & vision

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Mission

Give a company the shortest push that makes what it already has usable.

Short engagements, real software in production, and a price attached to your growth. Then we get out of the way — a push, never a dependency.

Vision

Software should take weeks, not quarters — at a fraction of today's cost.

We are building the studio that proves it, one ignition at a time, in public and with numbers instead of adjectives.

01Short by designAn engagement is weeks, not quarters. If it needs to be longer, it needs to be smaller first.
02Yours from day oneThe repository, the accesses and the documentation are in your name before we write a line.
03Numbers, not adjectivesEvery claim we make about a project comes with the metric it moved.
04We say noIf the push you need is not software, or not us, you hear it on the first call.

Burn logs

03 · filter and open
ProjectSectorWeeksCostLevel
coldchain.app/boardreefer 07 · −19.2°CFLEET IN TRANSIT34TEMP AVG · 24 H−19.8°C1 alert · door openspoilage claims −41%
Cold chain · live boardclaims −41%
quotes.internal/q-2418QUOTE #Q-24184 MINMetalúrgica Andina · 12 line itemsSteel plate A36 · 12mm409,480CNC milling · setup64,120Powder coating RAL 7016402,860Assembly + QA16,900+ 8 more items · rules engine v3price list 2026-Q3 · margin rule: floor 18%MARGIN24%floor 18% · target 26%TOTAL$48,120auto-approved by ruleSEND QUOTE
Industrial quoting · builder2 days → 4 min
app.credibanca.dev/onboardingONBOARDINGPersonal dataIdentity checkBank link712SCORE · INLINEid verification6.2 s medianabandonment30% → 11%
Credit onboarding · mobileabandonment 11%

What the AI does and doesn't

04 · no smoke
SPECBUILDTESTSHIPSCALE
DoesReads your code and your data, and writes the specification before touching anything.
DoesWrites and tests the code. Every merge is reviewed by a person with a name.
DoesHolds the pace: what a team does in six months, in six weeks.
Doesn'tDecide what to build. That is defined with you, and it decides whether the rest is worth anything.
Doesn'tReplace your team. We hand over the repository and the accesses.
Doesn'tGuess. If there is no data to settle something, we say so and we measure it.
How we charge

We grow when you grow.

A fixed part for the build, and a variable part attached to your metric. If it doesn't move, we don't charge it.
IgnitionAscentOrbitApogee

Tell us what is built and what isn't moving.

Thirty minutes. You leave with a written scope, whether you hire us or not. If we are not the push you need, we say so on the same call.

contact@ullage.devullage.dev